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establishment by Pettit

...and domestic and industrial skills. The efforts of another coworker made medical treatment available for the endemic trachoma that had left many mountain people blind. In 1913 Pettit established the
Pine Mountain Settlement School near Dillon, Harlan county, a task that she carried through from the clearing of a parcel of donated timberland to the erection of buildings from the lumber. While...